Privacy Policy for Trash Chat

Effective Date: May 16, 2025

Welcome to Trash Chat! Your privacy is critically important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you use our website and services ("Service"). We are committed to protecting your personal data and handling it responsibly.

By using Trash Chat, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Service.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Service includes:

• Personal Information:
  • Identifiers: Such as your name (if you choose to provide it), username, and email address when you register for an account or communicate with us.
  • Credentials: Passwords or similar security information used for authentication and account access.
• Interaction Data:
  • We store the content of your interactions with our AI. This includes the prompts you provide and the responses generated. This data is crucial for improving the AI's performance, understanding usage patterns, and enhancing user experience.
• Technical Data:
  • When you access the Service, we may automatically collect your IP address, browser type and version, operating system, device information, access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Service.
• Analytics Data:
  • We use third-party website analytics tools (e.g., Google Analytics) to collect information about your usage of Trash Chat. This includes pages visited, time spent on pages, links clicked, and other engagement metrics. This helps us understand how our Service is used and how to improve it.
• Cookies and Similar Technologies:
  • We use cookies, web beacons, and other similar tracking technologies to enhance your Browse experience, personalize content, remember your preferences, and analyze website traffic.
  • What are cookies? Cookies are small text files stored on your device (computer or mobile device) by your web browser.
  • Your consent: By using Trash Chat, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with this Privacy Policy. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings. However, disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of the Service.
  • We also admit we enjoy eating delicious cookies, but that's a different kind of cookie!

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

• Providing and Maintaining the Service: To operate and maintain the Trash Chat website and deliver the services you request.
• AI Improvement: To analyze user interactions (prompts and AI responses) to train, refine, and improve the performance, accuracy, and capabilities of our AI models.
• Personalization: To personalize your experience on Trash Chat, such as by remembering your preferences or suggesting content and features that may be relevant to you.
• Security and Integrity: To monitor for and prevent fraudulent or Aabusive activity, and to ensure the security and integrity of our Service.
• Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or enforceable governmental requests, and to assist in identifying users for legal purposes if necessary.
• Communication: To communicate with you regarding your account, service updates, changes to our policies, and to respond to your inquiries or provide support.
• Research and Development: We may use anonymized and aggregated data (data that does not identify you personally) for research purposes, such as analyzing trends and improving our Service.
• Analytics: To understand how our users interact with the Service, to monitor and analyze usage and trends, and to improve the Service's functionality and user experience.

3. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We are committed to protecting your privacy and will only share your data in the following limited circumstances:

• AI Service Provider: We share your interaction data (prompts and AI responses) with the third-party AI service provider (model provider) that powers our AI. This sharing is essential to provide the core functionality of the Trash Chat service. Our AI provider is also contractually obligated to protect your data.
• Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
  • Comply with a legal obligation or process.
  • Protect and defend the rights or property of Trash Chat.
  • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service.
  • Protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public.
• Service Providers: We may share your information with trusted third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, data analysis, email delivery, customer service, and marketing assistance. These providers are contractually obligated to maintain the confidentiality and security of your data and are restricted from using your data for any purpose other than to provide services for us.
• Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of company assets, or transition of service to another provider, your information may be sold or transferred as part of such a transaction as permitted by law and/or contract.
• Aggregated or Anonymized Data: We may share aggregated or anonymized information (which does not directly identify you) with third parties for research, marketing, analytics, or other purposes.

We will not sell your personal information to third parties.

4. Data Security

We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical security measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure. We use encryption for sensitive data where appropriate.

However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. You acknowledge that you provide your information at your own risk.

5. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, or as required by law (for example, for tax or accounting purposes).

• Account Information: We retain your personal information associated with your account for as long as your account is active.
• Interaction Data: Interaction data may be retained for longer periods for AI improvement and research purposes, typically in an anonymized or aggregated form where feasible.
• When we no longer need your personal information for the purposes it was collected, we will take reasonable steps to securely destroy it or permanently de-identify it.

6. Your Rights and Choices

You have certain rights regarding your personal information, subject to local data protection laws. These may include:

• Access and Correction: You have the right to access the personal information we hold about you and to request that we correct any inaccuracies. You can typically review and update your account information directly through your account settings.
• Data Deletion: You have the right to request the deletion of your account and associated personal data. Upon your request, we will take steps to delete your information from our active systems and, where feasible, from our backups, subject to certain exceptions (e.g., legal obligations, resolving disputes, enforcing agreements). To request deletion, please contact us at [email protected].
• Data Portability: You have the right to request a copy of your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to have this data transmitted to another controller where technically feasible.
• Objection to Processing: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances, such as processing for direct marketing purposes or when processing is based on our legitimate interests.
• Restriction of Processing: You may have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information under certain conditions.
• Withdrawal of Consent: Where we rely on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
• Cookies: You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at [email protected]. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe and in accordance with applicable law. We may need to verify your identity before processing your request.

7. Children's Privacy

Our Service is not directed to individuals under the age of 13 (or a higher age threshold as required by applicable law in your jurisdiction). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information from our servers. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child, please contact us at [email protected].

8. International Data Transfers

Your information, including personal data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction. If you are located outside Turkey and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including personal data, to Turkey and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

9. Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time. We will post the updated version on our website and indicate the "Effective Date" at the top of this Privacy Policy. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Effective Date".

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:

Email: [email protected]